WiThin Place

As an artist one of my greatest fears is people will not get it, my work that is. Although, this never does stop me from creating, it is a conversation I have with myself about the audience and that relationship that is developed when they view/aborb my art. Here is what one of my peers thought about my work! I love this!!


WiThin Places
JJ Levine
Sitting unassumingly at a crossroads like a seeker awaiting their next life path, the
artist watches the art exhibit unfold. Patrons arrive, some familiar with the territory being presented, some just to immerse themselves in the creative atmosphere they love so much. The space held together by the works ofMFA graduate student, Lisa Rasmussen.
Her paintings, photographs and installations on display this evening straddle the realms of inspiration, inner sight, and cross cultural phenomenon.
With healing light as the chosen medium, the artist openly invites anyone brave or
willing enough to trek mountain ranges of the psyche, whether that is perceived as
personal or collective. Voyagers around the room are spotted preparing to depart on
guided expeditions with individually assigned sherpas of the light, inter-dimensional
spirit guides, wielding paint while walking between the worlds. Operating in the neoshamanistic world of creativity as ritual, Ms Rasmussen assigns art materials to their app~opriate posts. Lines, stains and fields come alive with pigmented intention, making
the Prrceiver's reality feel like the rug just got pulled out from underneath them.
Lisa's sacred intentions are painted multi-dimensionally, making marks on canvases with
ancient symbols, and then layering over with an image that the viewer finally sees. Thepresence of the Earth Mother herself is felt sweeping to and fro on a ground of premeditated archaic ecstasyl; an inter ection between Spirituality, Divinity and the spacetime continuum. Her artworks, when feeling into them like portals, open up like
windows into alternate possibilities. While standing in front of one of Lisa's paintings, I fell into it, falling into a wormhole showing another time and space. I saw a tunnel with a bear's sleeping space similar to one I had seen while recently visiting Aillwee Cave in Ireland. Upon returning to present reality, I could feel that my vision and the painting were connected somehow, through the energetics ofplace and time. Some would say that that space holds a frequency that is both emotionally and spiritually familiar. However, be weary, young travelers, for there is a dark side to the Thin Places that we are shown, that may not be otherwise realized. Another side pnvy to the naIve, the courageous, the initiated, or even the uninitiated is that of the darkness of man's ascent away from nature. Viewers intending to spend "Si..mday afternoon in the park,,2, are instead confronted with reflections of the black waters of their earthly existence.
Lisa Rasmussen has that angle covered as well; with artist's integrity, and angel's
guidance, she skillfully breathes life into the void. Taking the mirrors handed to
unsuspecting purveyors, the artist smashes them with subconscious, yet idyllic~ imagery.
The artist personally guides the viewer into her private life of meditative memories,
artistic discipline and spiritual discovery.

Is there a comment that someone said about your art that has stuck with you? This is Art is Movings question of the month. Please send us your stories!